Irene Papas
Irene Papas (Greek: Ειρήνη Παππά, born Eirini Lelekou (Greek: Ειρήνη Λελέκου) 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022)was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Zorba the Greek (1964) and Z (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including The Trojan Women (1971) and Iphigenia (1977). She played the title roles in Antigone (1961) and Electra (1962). She had a fine singing voice, on display in the 1968 recording Songs of Theodorakis.
Papas won Best Actress awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for Antigone and from the National Board of Review for The Trojan Women. Her career awards include the Golden Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale.
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Known for
Climax!
Maxanne York
The Odyssey
Anticleia
Bloodline
Simonetta Palazzi
Sweet Country
Mrs. Araya
1931: Once Upon a Time in New York
Donna Mimma
Attila
Grune
Z
Hélène
Iphigenia
Klytaimnistra
Jacob
Rebekka
Island
Marquise
Trap for the Assassin
Julia de Noirville
High Season
Penelope
Party
Irene
The Deserter
Mariangela
Inquietude
Mother
MGM Parade
self
Yerma
Vieja pagana
The Odyssey
Penelope
Reflets de Cannes
Self
Erendira
Grandmother Amadis
Roma bene
Elena Teopoulos
The Guns of Navarone
Maria Pappadimos
Behold Man - The Survivors
Anna
A Talking Picture
Helena
Bouboulina
Laskarina Bouboulina
The Moon-Spinners
Sophia
Into the Night
Shaheen Parvici
Lion of the Desert
Mabrouka
Bambina
Raimonda Spina
Zorba the Greek
Widow
Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus
Old Maria
The Message
Hind
Anne of the Thousand Days
Queen Catherine
1821 at the Cinema
(archive footage)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Drosoula
La Valise en carton
Maria Amélia, la mère de Linda
Don't Torture a Duckling
Dona Aurelia Avallone
L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...
La Signora
Moses the Lawgiver
Zippora
The Brotherhood
Ida Ginetta
Short Cuts
Pensioner
Oceano
Aurelia Perdomo
A Dream of Kings
Caliope
The Trojan Women
Helen
Oasis of Fear
Barbara Slater
The Battle of Sutjeska
Borina majka
We Still Kill the Old Way
Luisa Roscio
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Giulia Venere
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Madre de Angela
Tribute to a Bad Man
Jocasta Constantine
Antigone
Antigone
The Unfaithfuls
Luisa Azzali
The Desperate Ones
Ajmi
Odissea
Penelope
Ring of Darkness
Raffaella
Plato's Banquet
Diotime
Moses the Lawgiver
Zippora
The Odyssey
Anticleia
The Assisi Underground
Mother Giuseppina
Theodora, Slave Empress
Faidia
Blood Wedding
La mère
Electra
Elektra
A Child Called Jesus
Old Maria
Vortice
Clara
N.P. - The Secret
Casalinga
Up, Down and Sideways
Μαρία
Il falso bugiardo
Self (archive footage)
Witness Out of Hell
Lea Weiss
The Man From Cairo
Yvonne Lebeau
The Balad of Mamelouk
Mamluk's Mother
Fallen Angels
Liana
The Steps
Joana
The Lake of Sighs
Frosyni
Un Amore Rubato
The Murder of Julius Caesar
Calpurnia
Lettera da Parigi
Gina
The Missing Scientists
Gina
Dead City
Lena
...και το τρένο πάει στον ουρανό
Elena Michailovna
Afghanistan For What?
Pssst ... girls!
Eleni
Champs-Elysées
Self
Sacrée Soirée
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self